The Apache Portals team is proud to announce the major release of a
suite of new Portal projects, all aligned to the new Portlet API 2.0
specification (JSR-286):
* Version 2.2.0 of the Jetspeed Enterprise Portal
* Version 2.0.0 of the Pluto Container
* Version 1.0 of several new Portals Applications
More information about the Apache Portals Project itself and its
projects can be found here:
http://portals.apache.org
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2
http://portals.apache.org/pluto
http://portals.apache.org/applications
Jetspeed is an Open Portal Platform and Enterprise Portal, written in
open source to the Java Portlet API standard under the Apache license.
Version 2.2.0 is a major update from the 2.1.3 release.
New Features and improvements in Version 2.2.0:
* Portlet API 2.0 Support and Compliance
* Inter-Portlet Communication via Events
* New High Speed Preferences Database Storage
* New Extensible Security Model with LDAP Synchronization
* Improved Documentation including 5 New Guides (Users Guide, Admin
Guide, Developers Guide, Build Guide, Deploy Guide)
* New Improved Administrative Portlets
* New Skins
* New Maven-2 Custom Build
* Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks
like Wicket, Spring MVC, JSF, and Struts
Full details can be found in the Jetspeed 2.2.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/release-notes.html
A demo of Jetspeed is running live at Apache Zones. Login with
username/password admin/j2:
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/portal/
http://portals.zones.apache.org/jetspeed/desktop/
Pluto Container is the Reference Implementation of th Java Portlet
Specifications 1.0 and 2.0.
Pluto 2.0.0 is fully compliant with the latest 2.0 specification, also
known as JSR-286,
as well as the 1.0 specification, known as JSR-168.
Full details can be found in the Pluto 2.0.0 release notes:
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/v20/release-notes.html
Apache Portals Applications (APA) is a new collaborative software
development project existing under the Apache Portals project. APA is
dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and
freely available Portlet Applications under the Apache license
developed at the Apache Software Foundation. The APA project releases
1.0 versions of the following Portlet Applications and components, all
targetted at the Portlet Specification 2.0 (JR-286):
* Gems - A collection of reusable portlets including Flash, Google
Maps, File, Event and Browser portlets.
* Database Browser - A portlet application dedicated to the
development and database portlet development including scrollable
lists and data entry forms
* Demo - A portlet application dedicated to learning Java and Groovy
portlet programming and tutorials, as well as some helpful weather and
bookmark portlets
* RSS - A portlet application dedicated to the development of RSS
portlet features
* Web Content - A portlet application dedicated to the development of
Web Content rewriting and IFrame based web content.
* Logging - Apache Portals Applications Logging, (APA Logging), is a
utility library used to setup and deploy logging to portlet applications
Source and binary distributions, including standard and full demo
installers for Jetspeed-2 Portal, are available from:
http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/download.html
http://portals.apache.org/pluto/download.html
http://portals.apache.org/applications/download.html
Validating the release
The release has been signed by Vivek Kumar, Carsten Ziegeler, and
David Taylor, the release managers for
this release. The public key can be found in the KEYS file in the
download
area. Download the KEYS file only from the Apache website.
http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/jetspeed-2/KEYS
http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/pluto/KEYS
http://www.apache.org/dist/portals/applications/KEYS
Instructions on how to validate the release can be found here:
http://www.apache.org/dev/release-signing.html#check-integrity
Reporting Issues
In case you encounter an issue, we would appreciate if you can report
it through our issue tracking system:
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JS2
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PLUTO
http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/APA
We hope you enjoy using Apache Portals! If you have any questions,
please consult:
* The web site: http://portals.apache.org/
* The mailing lists: http://portals.apache.org/mail-lists.html
David Sean Taylor
On behalf of the Apache Portals Team